Hundreds of Illinoisans made the secretary of state’s naughty list this year after trying to customize their license plates in a lewd or indecent manner.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias read aloud some of the rejected license plates this year due to indecency in a YouTube video. Applications for “IBPOOPN,” “BRICKED” and “PRIUSSY” were all kicked to the curb.
Illinois received over 55,000 new applications for vanity and personalized license plates this year and around 550 of them were rejected for not meeting the standard of “good taste and decency,” said Giannoulias, or for being illegible.
Some of the rejected license plates were read teasingly with the American and Illinois flag as a backdrop, including “BLUBALN,” “TYPESHT,” “ICUP” and “BDASMOM.”
With the naivety of a dad joke, Giannoulias offered expert commentary on each plate.
He confessed that BBL, which stands for ‘Brazilian Butt Lift’, had to be explained to him, and SNDNUDZ was read with air quotes and a “no thanks.”
“There are lots more that we had to deny that are far raunchier and inappropriate that I cannot read on camera,” Giannoulias said. “As always go ahead and get creative but please keep it clean and avoid ending up on the naughty list.”
Under the Illinois Vehicle Code, the secretary of state’s office can deny any vanity or personalized license plate that “creates a connotation that is offensive to good taste and decency,” the office said in a statement on Monday.
Plate combinations that reference profanity, hate speech, sexual content or other inappropriate topics, as well as illegible combinations that may cause problems for law enforcement like “MWMWMWM” are flagged.
The secretary of state’s office now has a list of over 8,000 rejected license plate combinations while nearly 800,000 vehicles in Illinois currently have vanity or personalized plates on display, according to a statement.
Illinoisans who are undaunted by the list of rejected combinations can begin an application through the office’s Pick-a-Plate website.